The next beta of Factory Nova will feature a new interface element which was invented in our R&D department (read: by me and Ivan).
Due to our design restrictions we wanted to display an input field for a description of the uploaded file as a one line text box. Usually this size is more then enough for a short file description. But, as we’ve discovered our beta testers were not using the description like we did (no surprise here) and they wanted to be able to enter several lines of text in the description. In other words they wanted a textarea field.
So after some experiments we’ve invented a new interface element — an auto-resizable-with-a-slider textarea. The main idea is that at first textarea looks like a usual one line text field (and takes the same amount of space on the screen, which was very important to us), but then as you type it can become bigger and turn into a real textarea — and with a nice slider effect too.
Here is how it works: Video (2.8 Mb)
